Heating Up Your Summer Marketing

Summer is usually one of the perfect times for a vacation. The weather is beautiful, kids are off from school, and people tend to take things slower than usual. As everyone takes a break from the rest of the year, however, marketing brands and entrepreneurs may want to use this time to get ahead of the curve. Though the season can be a slower one for some companies, summer promises a time for new opportunities in promotion, something that can affect business for the rest of the year.

One way to do this is to understand the certain trends that remain popular every summer. For instance, the summer months have notably higher numbers of beer and hot dog consumption. The Fourth of July also earned approximately $755 million for the fireworks industry, one of their busiest days of the year. Moreover, studies at WalletHub have found that an average $941 is spent on every person during a summer vacation. Summertime is not a relaxed time for the wallets, but how do brands reach beyond those products?

The answer to that question is basic content management. This means not only tooling the products to fit with the season but tooling the message to fit as well. In the new age of social media, it’s almost a requirement to be on top of reaching out to the public, and online settings can provide the best way to form a content strategy. The best way to understand this method is looking towards online trends and the content that Americans share across social media. Those sharing pictures of their families at the beach could be good targets for ads regarding summer wear or even vehicles for travel. By keeping track of this online activity, companies can better understand the consumers they want to target, thereby learning what is best to market to them. Simply extending ads to popular social sites like Pinterest or Snapchat can be a good start.

Most importantly, the summer season allows companies to plan for the rest of the year. Upon reaching out to people and their online preferences, businesses can update their content strategy with empirical data revealing new favorites or new sales numbers. If these months are inevitably slow, the summer can be the perfect time to reach out to new clients and revitalize the home base. Even if some consider the summer to be a vacation break, there is no time like the present to manage the industry better.

Whether the summer months means extra work or vacation time for people, the season is always the best place for opportunity. Sometimes, that’s all an ad campaign needs to work.

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